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Greetings and welcome to this week's AI Brews for a concise roundup of the week's major developments in AI.
In todayโs issue (Issue #26):
AI Pulse: Weekly News & Insights at a Glance
AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week
AI Skillset: Learn & Build
๐๏ธ๐๏ธ AI Pulse: Weekly News & Insights at a Glance
๐ฅ News
In an innovative clinical trial, researchers at Feinstein Institutes successfully implanted a microchip in a paralyzed man's brain and developed AI algorithms to re-establish the connection between his brain and body. This neural bypass restored movement and sensations in his hand, arm, and wrist, marking the first electronic reconnection of a paralyzed individual's brain, body, and spinal cord [Details].
IBM's watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model โ built from NASA's satellite data โ will be openly available on Hugging Face. It will be the largest geospatial foundation model on Hugging Face and the first-ever open-source AI foundation model built in collaboration with NASA [Details].
Google DeepMind introduced RT-2 - Robotics Transformer 2 - a first-of-its-kind vision-language-action (VLA) model that can directly output robotic actions. Just like language models are trained on text from the web to learn general ideas and concepts, RT-2 transfers knowledge from web data to inform robot behavior [Details]
Meta AI released Audiocraft, an open-source framework to generate high-quality, realistic audio and music from text-based user inputs. AudioCraft consists of three models: MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec. [Details | GitHub].
ElevenLabs now offers its previously enterprise-exclusive Professional Voice Cloning model to all users at the Creator plan level and above. Users can create a digital clone of their voice, which can also speak all languages supported by Eleven Multilingual v1 [Details].
Researchers from MIT have developed PhotoGuard, a technique that prevents unauthorized image manipulation by large diffusion models [Details].
Researchers from CMU show that it is possible to automatically construct adversarial attacks on both open and closed-source LLMs - specifically chosen sequences of characters that, when appended to a user query, will cause the system to obey user commands even if it produces harmful content [Paper]
Together AI extends Metaโs LLaMA-2-7B from 4K tokens to 32K long context and released LLaMA-2-7B-32K. [Details | Hugging Face].
AI investment can approach $200 billion globally by 2025 as per the report from Goldman Sachs [Details].
Nvidia presents a new method, Perfusion, that personalizes text-to-image creation using a small 100KB model. Trained for just 4 minutes, it creatively modifies objects' appearance while keeping their identity through a unique "Key-Locking" technique [Details].
Perplexity AI, the GPT-4 powered interactive search assistant, released a beta feature allowing users to upload and ask questions from documents, code, or research papers [Link].
Metaโs LlaMA-2 Chat 70B model outperforms ChatGPT on AlpacaEval leaderboard [Link].
Researchers from LightOn released Alfred-40B-0723, a new open-source Language Model (LLM) based on Falcon-40B aimed at reliably integrating generative AI into business workflows as an AI co-pilot [Details].
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) accuses Meta of misusing the term "open source" and says that the license of LLaMa models such as LLaMa 2 does not meet the terms of the open source definition [Details]
Google has updated its AI-powered Search experience (SGE) to include images and videos in AI-generated overviews, along with enhancing search speeds for quicker results [Details].
YouTube is testing AI-generated video summaries, currently appearing on watch and search pages for a select number of English-language videos [Details]
Meta is reportedly preparing to release AI-powered chatbots with different personas as early as next month [Details]
๐ฆ Weekly Spotlight
The state of AI in 2023: Generative AIโs breakout year: latest annual McKinsey Global Survey [Link].
Winners from Anthropicโs #BuildwithClaude hackathon last week [Link].
Open-source project Ollama: Get up and running with large language models, locally [Link].
Cybercriminals train AI chatbots for phishing, malware attacks [Link].
๐ ๐ ๏ธ AI Toolbox: Product Picks of the Week
MyMap: Map out ideas with AI Copilot. An AI-native app that streamlines the idea curation flow, from brainstorming and organizing to presenting.
AngelList Relay: an AI-powered portfolio analyzer that automatically extracts information as structured data from email correspondences.
Hireguide: Hireguide uses AI and hiring science to help teams create structured interviews that screen for skill and automate interview notetaking
๐ ๐ AI Skillset: Learn & Build
Part 1 of a five-part course by Wharton School on YouTube that provides an overview of AI large language models for educators and students [Link].
Guide on finetuning Llama 2 in your own cloud environment, via 100% open-source tool [Link].
Practical data considerations for building production-ready LLM applications โ Google slides by Jerry Liu, LlamaIndex co-founder/CEOย [Link].
Securing LLM systems against prompt injection - a guide by Nvidia [Link].
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๐ AI-powered brain implant, IBM and NASA Open Source AI Model, Robotics Transformer 2, Audiocraft by Meta, PhotoGuard and more
Hey Mariam, great roundup of AI developments. I'm particularly excited about the AI-powered brain implant and Meta's Audiocraft. The future of AI is looking brighter every day. Keep up the fantastic work.